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Daughter of a lost bird / Women Make Movies ; directed by Brooke Pepion Swaney ; produced by Brooke Pepion Swaney, Jeri Rafter, Kendra Mylnechuk Potter ; a coproduction of Same Land Film and Vision Maker Media.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Potter, Kendra Mylnechuk.
- Indian Adoption Project.
- United States. Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.
- United States.
- Interethnic adoption--United States.
- Interethnic adoption.
- Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation--United States.
- Indians of North America.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Biographical films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (66 min.)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : Women Make Movies, [2021]
- System Details:
- System requirements: An Internet browser with HTML5 support.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- "Lost birds" - a term for Native children adopted out of their tribal communities. Right after the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 became the law of the land, Kendra Mylnechuk Potter was adopted into a white family and raised with no knowledge of her Native parentage. This beautiful and intimate film follows Kendra on her journey to find her birth mother April, also a Native adoptee, and return to her Lummi homelands in Washington State. With a sensitive yet unflinching lens, director Brooke Swaney (Blackfeet/Salish) documents Kendra and April as they connect with relatives and navigate what it means to be Native, and to belong to a tribe from the outside looking in. Along the way, Kendra uncovers generations of emotional and spiritual beauty and pain and comes to the startling realization that she is a living legacy of U. S. assimilationist policy.
- Participant:
- Kendra Mylnechuk Potter, April Kowalski.
- Credits:
- Edited by Kristen Swanbek ; composer, Laura Ortman ; director of photography, Zelmira Gainza.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 16, 2022).
- Publisher Number:
- wm-dlbird Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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